Papyrs vs. Confluence vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Version
N/A
5.2
18.0.0
N/A
Last Release Date
N/A
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Stunf BV
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
No
Yes
N/A
License
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
161061273600
Unlimited
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Other Limits
No
None
Topic Restrictions
No
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
Yes
System Requirements Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Operating System
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Text Files
N/A
No
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
No
Plugin
N/A
Other
N/A
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
No
Statistics Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Papyrs Confluence XWiki PBwiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
## Heading
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*italic*
_italics_
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`mono`
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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